SIGforum.com    Main Page  Hop To Forum Categories  What's Your Deal!    Sitting in my parked truck atop the Mattews bridge
Go
New
Find
Notify
Tools
Reply
  
Sitting in my parked truck atop the Mattews bridge Login/Join 
The success of a solution usually depends upon your point of view
posted
About 10 cars back from the overturned car blocking both lanes and I am watching the rubberneckers in the oncoming lanes coming to a complete stop while traffic backs up behind them as far as i can see. Assholes.

At least the view from here is pretty nice.



“We truly live in a wondrous age of stupid.” - 83v45magna

"I think it's important that people understand free speech doesn't mean free from consequences societally or politically or culturally."
-Pranjit Kalita, founder and CIO of Birkoa Capital Management

 
Posts: 3840 | Location: Jacksonville, FL | Registered: September 10, 2010Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
posted Hide Post
As long as the rubberneckers are completely stopping traffic in an otherwise un-affected lane......they should be pulled to the side and publically flogged.



<><
America, Land of the Free - because of the Brave
 
Posts: 1926 | Location: Goodbye, so. Fla. | Registered: January 26, 2001Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
posted Hide Post
This used to happen to me:
Wrecked vehicles scattered about. Ambulances, (occasionally a cool helicopter) fire trucks, tow trucks, flares and my patrol car with many flashy lights going full blast parked blocking the street.
People would pull up to me and ask: "Is there an accident up there"?


End of Earth: 2 Miles
Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles
 
Posts: 16005 | Location: Marquette MI | Registered: July 08, 2014Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Page late and a dollar short
posted Hide Post
quote:
Originally posted by YooperSigs:
This used to happen to me:
Wrecked vehicles scattered about. Ambulances, (occasionally a cool helicopter) fire trucks, tow trucks, flares and my patrol car with many flashy lights going full blast parked blocking the street.
People would pull up to me and ask: "Is there an accident up there"?


Should have told them one of two things,

We are having a first responders convention

or:

We are showing the taxpayers all the nice shiny toys they bought for us

"Loved" gawkers though. It was always funny when things got real though. Like the night we pulled a car off a gas meter/pipe loop that crashed into a barber shop. Once they figured out that we could not shut off the gas until we got the car off of it, that we were going to spray water on it in hope of keeping sparks from igniting the gas while winching it off, then they all got back waaaaay waaaaay away! No sense of adventure I tell you.


-------------------------------------——————
————————--Ignorance is a powerful tool if applied at the right time, even, usually, surpassing knowledge(E.J.Potter, A.K.A. The Michigan Madman)
 
Posts: 8067 | Location: Livingston County Michigan USA | Registered: August 11, 2002Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Almost as Fast as a Speeding Bullet
Picture of Otto Pilot
posted Hide Post
quote:
Originally posted by shovelhead:
quote:
Originally posted by YooperSigs:
This used to happen to me:
Wrecked vehicles scattered about. Ambulances, (occasionally a cool helicopter) fire trucks, tow trucks, flares and my patrol car with many flashy lights going full blast parked blocking the street.
People would pull up to me and ask: "Is there an accident up there"?


Should have told them one of two things,

We are having a first responders convention

or:

We are showing the taxpayers all the nice shiny toys they bought for us
"Nope, someone radioed in there was a doughnut truck turned over...here's your sign." [With regards to Bill Engvall]

People who write their own comedy are the best to deal with.


______________________________________________
Aeronautics confers beauty and grandeur, combining art and science for those who devote themselves to it. . . . The aeronaut, free in space, sailing in the infinite, loses himself in the immense undulations of nature. He climbs, he rises, he soars, he reigns, he hurtles the proud vault of the azure sky. — Georges Besançon
 
Posts: 11502 | Location: Denver and/or The World | Registered: August 30, 2004Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Slayer of Agapanthus


posted Hide Post
Even more fucked up is the second accident caused by dimbulbs gawking at the first accident.


"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye". The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, pilot and author, lost on mission, July 1944, Med Theatre.
 
Posts: 5952 | Location: Central Texas | Registered: September 14, 2003Reply With QuoteReport This Post
In the yahd, not too
fah from the cah
Picture of ryan81986
posted Hide Post
quote:
We are having a first responders convention


Ohh I'm gonna remember that one...




 
Posts: 6339 | Location: Just outside of Boston | Registered: March 28, 2007Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Grandiosity is a sign
of mental illness
posted Hide Post
Rubbernecking delays. Hate them.

Hard to think of anything more purely a pointless waste of other people's time than rubbernecking.
 
Posts: 2453 | Location: MO | Registered: March 07, 2010Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
posted Hide Post
my go to was always “submarine surfaced in the wrong place” or “train derailed” where there are no tracks.
 
Posts: 1608 | Registered: March 04, 2011Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Eschew Obfuscation
posted Hide Post


_____________________________________________________________________
“Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again." - Will Durant
 
Posts: 6373 | Location: Chicago, IL | Registered: December 17, 2007Reply With QuoteReport This Post
  Powered by Social Strata  
 

SIGforum.com    Main Page  Hop To Forum Categories  What's Your Deal!    Sitting in my parked truck atop the Mattews bridge

© SIGforum 2024